i have over 29,000 emails in my outlook, and as a safty measure i want to extract all the email addresses...

any one know how?

Tx

Off the top of my head... Export the your Outlook contact data to a CSV file. Open the CSV file in Excel. Use your spreadsheet skills to do whatever it is you want to do with the data. Save the data back to the file. Import the file back into Outlook.

Off the top of my head... Export the your Outlook contact data to a CSV file. Open the CSV file in Excel. Use your spreadsheet skills to do whatever it is you want to do with the data. Save the data back to the file. Import the file back into Outlook.

and where in outlook do i go to do this?

Tx

The Outlook Data file has the extension .pst so you need to look for Inbox.pst and so on.

Download FileMonkey from HERE

You can then use the Export feature of Outlook to export the PST file as a plain text file. FileMonkey can then extract email addresses from the plain text file.

Than use FileMonkey for to extract the e-mail addresses out of that text file.

Depend on the OS you use, there different location of that PST files.

Cheers.

Bugger..........I had a progam before that would do exactly that, you just set it up and tell it which folder to search. It collects all valid email addresses, the downside is that it will collect cc's and any email addys in the body of the message.

I've completely forgotten the name of it, I will search around and try and find it for you.

When I still used outlook, I used this program which might fit the bill. There's a free trail version as well.

Regards

E-mail address extractor

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Edited July 27, 200817 yr by A_Traveller